Recruiting Operations Manager

Job description

About Mistral Mistral provides full-stack AI solutions: from frontier models to developer tools, applications, and compute. We partner with enterprises tackling the hardest problems across high-stakes industries like finance, manufacturing, defense, healthcare, and the public sector, co-creating customized AI systems that they can run on their terms. We are a dynamic, collaborative team passionate about AI and its potential to transform society. Our diverse workforce thrives in competitive environments and is committed to driving innovation. Our teams are distributed between Europe, North America, Asia and the Middle East. We are creative, low-ego and team-spirited. The Role As a Recruiting Operations Manager on the Talent Acquisition team, you will help run the systems, data and processes that let us hire +100 people per month. You will work alongside Talent Acquisition, People Ops, Legal, Finance, and every department that hires. Your job is to make recruiting more effective as we scale: more great hires per unit of effort, without adding unnecessary complexity or sacrificing quality. This role is ideal for someone who thrives at the intersection of process, technology, and people: someone who loves solving operational challenges and driving continuous improvement. What You Will Do Recruiting infrastructure & operating model : optimize our ATS, broader recruiting stack, workflows and processes end to end; keep the system clean, connected and scalable. Metrics & performance : build the metrics and reporting that leadership and Ops teams need to make decisions, and turn insights into concrete improvements in speed, quality and efficiency. Headcount planning & recruiting capacity : partner with Finance and business leaders to align workforce plans with business priorities and ensure recruiting capacity stays aligned as priorities evolve. Enable recruiters & hiring managers : build practical enablement around tools, sourcing, workflows, interviewing, hiring principles and calibration so teams can operate more effectively. Candidate experience & recruiting standards : establish a consistent, high-quality candidate experience across the recruiting process, and continuously identify opportunities to improve it Innovation & leverage : use AI, talent intelligence, market data and emerging technologies to augment how we identify, engage and assess talent, creating…